70 Years Later, India And Pakistan Still Feel Impact Of Partition
7 years, 7 months ago

70 Years Later, India And Pakistan Still Feel Impact Of Partition

NPR  

70 Years Later, India And Pakistan Still Feel Impact Of Partition Seventy years after the partition of India and Pakistan, both countries are still shaped by the turmoil of that time. ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Seventy years ago this week, Britain granted independence to the Indian subcontinent which was partitioned into two countries - Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan. Well, NPR's Diaa Hadid and Julie McCarthy are in the two countries, Diaa in Pakistan and Julie in India. SIEGEL: That's NPR's Julie McCarthy in New Delhi and Diaa Hadid in Islamabad talking about the 70th anniversary of the partition which created the independent nations of India and Pakistan.

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Partition only due to 2 persons: Manik Saha
1 year, 7 months ago

Partition only due to 2 persons: Manik Saha

Hindustan Times  

AGARTALA: India was partitioned in 1947 due to the wishes of only “two persons” though many Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs and people from all other religions were against it, Tripura chief minister Manik Saha said at a programme to mark Partition Horrors Remembrance Day in Agartala on Monday. Tripura chief minister Manik Saha “If we think that only Hindus didn’t want …

Road to Partition : Throughline
2 years, 3 months ago

Road to Partition : Throughline

NPR  

Road to Partition : Throughline What happens when a nation splits apart? It happened 75 years ago with Partition, when India and Pakistan became independent nations, divided by a somewhat arbitrary line that separated neighbors, families, and communities. In today's episode, NPR politics reporter Asma Khalid takes us back in time to learn how the road to Partition was paved, …

India's Partition Story: 75 Years On, Where Do The Neighbouring Nations Stand?
2 years, 5 months ago

India's Partition Story: 75 Years On, Where Do The Neighbouring Nations Stand?

The Quint  

Do citizens of these “new” countries like and trust each other? Answers to these questions become even more important and relevant as the world and South Asia struggle to cope with a series of unprecedented crisis including Covid pandemic in early 2020. In an ambitious exercise, CVoter Foundation collaborated with the Centre for Policy Research to conduct a massive survey …

5 books and films that tell the story of the trauma of the Partition of India and its aftermath
2 years, 7 months ago

5 books and films that tell the story of the trauma of the Partition of India and its aftermath

Salon  

Editor's note: At midnight on Aug. 14, 1947, India achieved independence from British colonial rule and Pakistan was created as a separate homeland for Muslims. "My Name is Radha: The Essential Manto" Recommended by professor Madhur Anand, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada Partition in South Asia refers to that horrific year when an arbitrary red line was drawn across a …

Manish Tewari | 75 years later, it’s time to bury Partition legacy
2 years, 7 months ago

Manish Tewari | 75 years later, it’s time to bury Partition legacy

Deccan Chronicle  

Tomorrow Independent India would be 75 years old. Did the sharp inflection points between the Hindus and Muslims as a consequence of over 70 invasions by Muslim invaders between AD 1000 and AD 1700 finally find expression when a more cunning but religiously different imperialist “the firangi” became India’s overlord especially after the failure of the Mutiny of 1857 or …

Infographic: How were India-Pakistan partition borders drawn?
2 years, 7 months ago

Infographic: How were India-Pakistan partition borders drawn?

Al Jazeera  

This animated map shows how the borders of the Indian subcontinent have evolved since the 1947 partition. Seventy-five years ago, Sir Cyril Radcliffe, a British lawyer, was commissioned to draw the borders that would divide British-ruled India into two new, independent nations: Hindu-majority India and mainly Muslim Pakistan. The boundary between the two nations became known as the Radcliffe Line …

Partition of India a 'historic mistake': Farooq Abdullah
3 years, 3 months ago

Partition of India a 'historic mistake': Farooq Abdullah

India TV News  

Highlights Farooq Abdullah on Monday said that India's partition was a historic mistake. India's partition was a historic mistake, and not only Kashmiris but the entire Muslim community had to bear its brunt, National Conference national president Farooq Abdullah said on Monday. Supporting Defence Minister Rajnath Singh's statement on the country's partition, Abdullah said had there been no partition, the …

‘Partition is resonating loudly in our present’
3 years, 5 months ago

‘Partition is resonating loudly in our present’

Live Mint  

In Manreet Sodhi Someshwar’s latest novel, Lahore, the first part of a projected trilogy chronicling the human costs of the partition of the subcontinent, there is an electric charge from the very first page. Two friends, Beli Ram and Mehmood, who have grown up together in “Laur”, are caught in the crossfire between a rally by the Muslim League demanding …

Historical photo shows Nehru and others voting in favour of partition
3 years, 7 months ago

Historical photo shows Nehru and others voting in favour of partition

Op India  

On the day PM Modi declared August 14 to be observed as ‘Partition Horrors Remembrance Day’ to acknowledge the pain undergone by Indians due to the partition of India in 1947, an unseen picture of Congress delegates voting in favour of partition has gone viral on the internet. The picture of Congress members, which also included India’s first Prime Minister …

What does fiction tell us about Partition?
3 years, 7 months ago

What does fiction tell us about Partition?

The Hindu  

Parsing Partition is a national pastime. Daisy Rockwell tries to explain why in the Afterword to her translation of Khadija Mastur’s A Promised Land : “Like the Holocaust, or the American Civil War, or the French Revolution or any other epochal conflict that has shredded the fabric of society and caused many deaths, it is both a deep psychic preoccupation …

Interview: Pallavi Raghavan, Author, Animosity at Bay: An Alternative History of the India-Pakistan Relationship
4 years, 2 months ago

Interview: Pallavi Raghavan, Author, Animosity at Bay: An Alternative History of the India-Pakistan Relationship

Hindustan Times  

Often, even as India and Pakistan exchange lists of nuclear installations and hold talks about the Indus Water Treaty, ceasefire violations and retaliatory shelling continue along the Line of Control. We need to remember that the story of “othering” is just one of many different kinds of narratives that can be shaped around the subcontinent’s history. It’s a slower process …

By agreeing to Partition, Congress kept India united
5 years, 1 month ago

By agreeing to Partition, Congress kept India united

The Hindu  

It has become a fashion these days to blame the Congress for Partition. Cabinet Mission Plan Moreover, documentary evidence, especially the resolution of the Muslim League Council in June 1946 that accepted the Cabinet Mission Plan, proves that the Muslim League’s acceptance was premised on the belief that the Plan was a stepping stone towards the ultimate formation of Pakistan, …

Partition was a historic swindle that India, Pakistan and Bangladesh must see through; steps to undo British wrongdoing necessary
5 years, 3 months ago

Partition was a historic swindle that India, Pakistan and Bangladesh must see through; steps to undo British wrongdoing necessary

Firstpost  

A historical united people’s struggle led by patriotic, modern-minded leaders, like Mustafa Kemal of Turkey or the leaders of Japan after the Meiji Restoration, will be required for bringing about a transformation to lift India from the ranks of underdeveloped to developed countries Mohammed Ali Jinnah’s birth anniversary was on 25 December, and on this occasion, many Pakistanis said that …

Indians have not learned lessons of Partition
5 years, 3 months ago

Indians have not learned lessons of Partition

Deccan Chronicle  

The current time in India has brought us an accurate reproduction of the days leading up to Partition. 11) Provision should be made in the Constitution giving Muslims an adequate share, along with the other Indians, in all the services of the state and in local self-governing bodies having due regard to the requirements of efficiency. 12) The Constitution should …

Partition: An event to celebrate, mourn, or forget
5 years, 7 months ago

Partition: An event to celebrate, mourn, or forget

Al Jazeera  

More than 70 years ago today, the Indian subcontinent was divided by its British colonial rulers into two nation-states – India and Pakistan. In the schools that I work in Pakistan, students frequently tell me that they celebrate Pakistan’s independence from not the British Empire but “Hindu India” every August. Mourning a breakup in India As Pakistan celebrates the “making …

‘Partition: 1947’ Parts With the Human Plight of Independence
7 years, 7 months ago

‘Partition: 1947’ Parts With the Human Plight of Independence

The Quint  

Lord Mountbatten was brought in to oversee the change of power, which was going to be a messy and tragic affair. The film, dubbed in Hindi and re-christened Partition: 1947, closely follows the workings of the last Viceroy to India and the events leading up to 15 August 1947. Incidentally, the English title, The Viceroy’s House, is more apt for …

Partition: Borders of Blood
7 years, 7 months ago

Partition: Borders of Blood

Al Jazeera  

Seventy years after the partition of India, we examine the troubled legacy of the event that shaped the subcontinent. Follow Al Jazeera’s coverage of the 70 years of India-Pakistan partition It sparked three wars, the birth of Bangladesh, and transformed Kashmir into one of the world’s most militarised zone. As tensions between India and Pakistan persist, 101 East explores partition’s …

For India's Oldest Citizens, Independence Day Spurs Memories Of A Painful Partition
7 years, 7 months ago

For India's Oldest Citizens, Independence Day Spurs Memories Of A Painful Partition

NPR  

For India's Oldest Citizens, Independence Day Spurs Memories Of A Painful Partition Promila Saigal remembers the men in her family tossing her "like a football" from the rooftop of one family home to the next, in a bid to save her from the frenzy that washed over the Indian subcontinent 70 years ago. Enlarge this image toggle caption Julie McCarthy/NPR …

How the Partition of India happened – and why its effects are still felt today
7 years, 7 months ago

How the Partition of India happened – and why its effects are still felt today

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy “Partition” – the division of …

India at 70: Horror of Partition sealed Nehru’s drive for a secular democracy after Independence
7 years, 7 months ago

India at 70: Horror of Partition sealed Nehru’s drive for a secular democracy after Independence

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. open image in gallery Spectacles: Jawaharal Nehru and Gandhi …

Enduring the effects of partition in Kashmir
7 years, 7 months ago

Enduring the effects of partition in Kashmir

Al Jazeera  

Indian-administered Kashmir – As the 70th anniversary of the partition of Indian subcontinent approaches, for some of the communities torn apart by the aftermath of the historic event, the effects of the trauma still linger. In Indian-administered Kashmir, the predominantly Muslim population harbour strong sentiments against Indian rule and an estimated 70,000 people have been killed in the violence that …

70 years since Partition, Pakistan still hasn’t been able to separate itself from India
7 years, 7 months ago

70 years since Partition, Pakistan still hasn’t been able to separate itself from India

The Independent  

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Pakistan came …

Partition 70 years on: The violence that created Pakistan and India
7 years, 7 months ago

Partition 70 years on: The violence that created Pakistan and India

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Speaking to Associated Press, Krishen Khanna, who was 21 …

Remembering Partition: 70 years since India-Pakistan divide
7 years, 7 months ago

Remembering Partition: 70 years since India-Pakistan divide

Associated Press  

It’s been 70 years since India and Pakistan were carved from the former British Empire as independent nations, a process that triggered one of the largest human migrations in history. “There was always something going on, and life in that village was very good.” Chopra’s family moved through refugee camps on both sides of the border, eventually reaching the bustling …

70 Years of the Radcliffe Line: Understanding the Story of Indian Partition
7 years, 7 months ago

70 Years of the Radcliffe Line: Understanding the Story of Indian Partition

The Diplomat  

When the British partitioned India and departed the subcontinent 70 years ago, the delineation of the border between the new states of India and Pakistan — the Radcliffe Line — had not yet been released. Nonetheless, Congress insisted that two provinces with slight Muslim majorities, Punjab and Bengal, were themselves partitioned between Hindu/Sikh and Muslim majority areas, in order to …

Memories of partition: One man’s return to Pakistan
7 years, 7 months ago

Memories of partition: One man’s return to Pakistan

Al Jazeera  

Seventy years on, a now 92-year-old man returns to the home he fled during the ‘poison’ of partition. “When we left, we had just put a lock on the house, thinking that we’d return within 10 or 15 days,” he says. It happened, and we had to flee.” The trauma of forced displacement Khanna’s characterisation of a “poison”, or “madness”, …

Partition key battleground in India, Pakistan textbook wars
7 years, 7 months ago

Partition key battleground in India, Pakistan textbook wars

Live Mint  

Islamabad: Pakistani high school student Noman Afzal knows “traitorous” Hindus are to blame for the bloodshed that erupted when British India split into two nations 70 years ago. In a government-approved grade five history textbook used in schools in Pakistan’s Baluchistan province, Hindus are described as “thugs” who “massacred Muslims, confiscated their property, and forced them to leave India”. “They …

State of the Union: Bridge the Partition
8 years, 8 months ago

State of the Union: Bridge the Partition

Deccan Chronicle  

There’s a popular belief that at the people-to-people level all is well between India and Pakistan, and the problem is really between the establishments in the two nations. A ceremony described by the former finance and external affairs minister in the Atal Behari Vajpayee government thus: “We have that ugly ceremony at Wagah, almost vulgar, I don’t know why we …

Partition: A fallout of 1942?
9 years, 7 months ago

Partition: A fallout of 1942?

Deccan Chronicle  

There has been a spate of books in recent weeks on Partition and the birth of Pakistan. Did Nehru and Patel, and perhaps Mahatma Gandhi too, give in because they were too tired after a long struggle for freedom and saw a smaller but more organically united India as more workable than the sum of many parts held together by …

What Pak's crisis tells all Indians: Partition was an excellent idea
10 years, 6 months ago

What Pak's crisis tells all Indians: Partition was an excellent idea

Firstpost  

Contrary to what peace-wallahs think, it is not India’s job to rescue Pakistan from theocratic mess or any other crisis they pass through. In fact, we would have been in every kind of sectarian strife if we had had a united India in 1947 If one were to look at what’s happening across our western borders – where an elected …

Parivar & Partition
10 years, 7 months ago

Parivar & Partition

The Hindu  

“THE ease with which a larger number of Congressmen and women—small, big and bigger still—have walked into the RSS-BJP boat and sailed with it is not a matter of surprise. “On 11-16 December 1938, the CWC declared the Hindu Mahasabha and the Muslim League as communal organisations and debarred elected members of Congress committees from serving on similar committees in …

Was partition worth it?
14 years, 7 months ago

Was partition worth it?

Al Jazeera  

As India and Pakistan celebrate independence, we revisit the partition of the subcontinent. While India’s economy has grown exponentially, it is still struggling with grinding poverty, a slew of internal separatist movements and a growing leftist insurgency. Both nations have also fought three wars – two of them over the disputed region of Kashmir – and are perennially hovering on …

Partition: conflict for state power
15 years, 2 months ago

Partition: conflict for state power

The Hindu  

History is often dismissively spoken of as about ‘dead yesterdays’; but like Bram Stoker’s ‘Un-Dead Count Dracula,’ it has a wicked habit of returning to the world of the living to haunt it. The Partition has been called variously as a “vivisection,” “an imperialist betrayal,” and “a historical denouement of two-nation theory.” Those found ‘guilty’ have been ‘impeached’, counterfactual histories …

Search for the real villain of Partition divides India again
15 years, 7 months ago

Search for the real villain of Partition divides India again

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. A controversial new book by a senior politician from …

Divided minds
16 years, 9 months ago

Divided minds

The Hindu  

Partition has led to sectarian strife in Pakistan; in India it fuels the Sangh Parivars hate industry. Its evil consequences are still being felt: in Pakistan, where it led to sectarian strife and in India, w here it fuels the hate industry that the Sangh Parivar set up decades before Partition. If Partition is a tragedy of monumental proportions, the …

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